God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.